Example sentences of "[prep] [art] same extent as " in BNC.

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1 Although not to anything like the same extent as in an earlier period in the United States , quietly and firmly the British black family was becoming the focus of official anxieties .
2 Members in Northern Ireland are not taking advantage of the savings available on Homecover to anything like the same extent as members in the Republic of Ireland and Great Britain .
3 Speakers of languages like Japanese , Hungarian and Spanish , which do not have weak syllables to anything like the same extent as English does , may well find such exercises of some value ( as long as they are not overdone to the point where learners feel they have to speak English as though they were reciting verse ) .
4 This has occurred in America too , but to nowhere near the same extent as elsewhere .
5 ‘ Under normal tax law , these would have been available to the enlarged group under the same conditions and to the same extent as for any other UK group . ’
6 He is to be afforded shelter from bombardment ‘ to the same extent as the local civilian population . ’
7 At the opposite end of the scale is the barbel , and while he does not require to be outwitted to the same extent as bream , he does make landing him extremely difficult .
8 We will break down and discuss two basic , possible explanations for these marked differences between the crime figures for men and women : firstly , that women do not indulge in criminality to the same extent as men ; secondly , that female crime is greatly underestimated by the statistics , in other words there is more female crime than the statistics indicate .
9 Women do not indulge in criminality to the same extent as men
10 These arguments suggest that the biological and/or psychological make-up of women does not predispose them to criminality to the same extent as men .
11 Industrial investment abroad is unlikely to create wealth and jobs to the same extent as would investment within the UK .
12 For example , brothers and sisters who differ in age share genes to the same extent as dizygotic twins , and so in a purely genetic disease would be expected to have the same concordance rates — but they do not .
13 Britishers , de Kruif told Lewis , did not get their science and their dollars mixed up to the same extent as Americans .
14 it follows from this that ‘ it is characteristic of all unproductive labourers that they are at my command … only to the same extent as I exploit productive labourers … however , my power to employ productive labourers by no means grows in the same proportion as I employ unproductive labourers , but on the contrary diminishes in the same proportion . ’
15 In the Middle Ages it was generally accepted that women 's ears turned men on to the same extent as the more obvious feminine attributes ; that is why so may medieval headdresses ensured that women 's ears were discreetly covered .
16 There is a complex interrelation of both systems and we can again distinguish different countries in which this dual function of law plays a greater or lesser role : the UK for example , without a written constitution , without a constitutional court , without a long tradition of legal science but with a multitude of extra-legal institutions and ideologies does not rely on legal ideology to the same extent as other countries , for example , West Germany and the USA .
17 The Art Newspaper 's sources in Russia have , however , confirmed that Ivan 's treasure has been found to the same extent as the Loch Ness monster .
18 It would be a short sighted solution to try to remedy this bias by showing mathematics operating in the domestic realm to the same extent as it operates outside it , just to draw girls ' interest .
19 They did not expand with the audience to the same extent as with a newspaper .
20 The headlines often reflect this focus on the alleged offender 's occupation , but not quite to the same extent as in the attacks on males .
21 But Weber did not elaborate the process of creativity to the same extent as Freud .
22 This is fairly well known , but it is not commonly realized that synthetic detergents are affected deleteriously by the hardness of the water , although not to the same extent as soaps .
23 Women are not , however , forced into the worst aspects of this trade by their lack of money to the same extent as they used to be .
24 We found that Blacks were over-represented , although not to the same extent as in London , 6 per cent .
25 He was a comparative stranger to the London men , hardly committed to the same extent as local leaders such as Ben Tillett , John Burns , Tom Mann and Tom Walsh , his own union 's delegate .
26 It is true that all advanced industrial societies have witnessed this shift but none to the same extent as this country .
27 Fig. 3 showed that the clones of RAP74 whose C-terminal sequences were deleted up to the 171th amino acid residue ( lanes 2,3 and 4 ) stimulated the CAT activity to the same extent as the wild type clone , but further deletion of the C-terminal sequence up to the 128th residue resulted in a complete loss of the CAT activity ( lane 5 ) .
28 This Congress demands that deaf people should have access to all official information to the same extent as hearing people .
29 The Pacific region , Gorbachev observed , had not been militarised to the same extent as Europe .
30 Developments in the reform of children 's services do not appear to have been influenced by this body of knowledge to the same extent as the reforms of ‘ adult services ’ .
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